I KNOW THIS GUY
ACROSS
1 What to give someone chasing you
8 Plays candlepins
13 Tendon
18 Digestive fluid made by the liver
20 Hang around for
21 Chopin piece
22 They’re got all the answers
24 Voice-activated control in some expensive German cars
26 Schedule abbr.
27 Gulf leader
29 Supernumeraries in some operas
30 Recording __
33 Gulf leader, e.g.
35 Splash of hair color
36 Omoo author
40 Dumps
44 Big grocery chain
45 Knee injury, in some sports stories: Abbr. 46 Unsophisticated
48 The “Darling” in “Darling, won’t you ease my worried mind?” in a 1972 hit
50 Purple shade
52 Lively
54 It’ll fill you up
56 Farmer, after the harvest
58 Gooey mass
60 River of western Germany
61 Tiny amount
62 Never-say-die attitude
64 Zone
66 “That makes sense”
68 Bowie collaborator on the Berlin Trilogy
69 Tallness metric
73 Ghost’s cry
75 Mash potatoes?
76 The second “A” in both “AMA” and “APA”: Abbr.
77 Part of a film?
78 “Fernando” singers 80 “Yeah, right!”
82 Hardy character
84 Beer made with malt
88 Music genre whose band logos are sometimes illegible
91 Agonizes (over)
93 Rap battle in
Hamilton, e.g.
94 Damascus’s nation
95 Harry Potter’s summoning spell
97 Ming in the Basketball Hall of Fame
98 Driver’s license abbr.
99 Where to begin?
101 Alternative healing discipline
106 Water holder 108 Italian wine center 109 Series of musical movements
110 Is behind schedule
115 Otherwise
117 CIA forerunner
118 Form of some 17th-century epic English poetry 120 “I know this guy,” and the theme of this puzzle
125 Existence
126 When Ophelia drowns, in Hamlet
127 Salesman’s hope
128 Elizabeth of WandaVision
129 Singer MacGowan
130 Skimpy trunks
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1 “Speaking frankly” in a text
2 Get a move on, at the Globe
3 Squirrel’s tail?
4 Nostrils’ go-between
5 Sorority letter
6 Trapped mid-winter
7 Wrestling win
8 Persian Gulf island country
9 Be in arrears
10 Methods
11 Like a wet rag
12 Jousting partner?
13 On the sly 14 Big-ticket __
15 All out of clothing?
16 Biblical plot
17 Oscar-winning director Anderson
19 Expected
23 Taking
12 out of
13 tricks in bridge
25 Tampa Bay team
28 Rap producer Gotti
30 Transition
31 Do a line drawing
32 French actor __ Sy
34 Uninspiring
36 Swiveled joints
37 Vaper’s device
38 Commits perjury
39 Taiwanese carrier whose name is 66.7 percent vowels
41 Poetic foot
42 Lace place
43 Done in
47 Tip for some test takers?
49 Boxer’s bowlful
51 Upper hand
52 Young man in Utah history
53 Whence BTS
55 Bad vibes?
57 Actor Stonestreet
59 __ mode
63 Sailing spot
65 Jerks
67 Hard to get a hold of
69 Tasmanian capital
70 Streaming platform
71 Out of fashion
72 Sine qua non
73 Scornful cries
74 Follows
79 Hoka rival
81 A model might put one on
83 Baseball part
85 Sit in on
86 “Better in Time” singer Lewis
87 Dresden’s river
89 Election year decoration
90 Coinage in Izmir
92 Afflictions
96 “Watch closely”
100 One on the Mohs scale
102 The “A” of “NATO”: Abbr.
103 “Sh-Boom” genre 104 Out of the cold 105 Royal home
107 __boy
110 Short video on Facebook
111 “QB VII” novelist
112 Less than a few
113 Wearables, e.g.
114 Jazz singer James
116 Hosp. readout
118 God Save Texas channel
119 Article for Scholz
121 Palindromic distress message
122 __ PE (rapcore group)
123 Little Red Book author
124 Globe staff: Abbr.